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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tree think when she finds pills in Dab's room?

2. What are Tree's feelings in the hospital?

3. What does Miss Pricherd ask Tree to wait for?

4. What does M'Vy tell Tree about Ken?

5. Who stays with Tree while M'Vy sees to Dab?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens that Dab gets taken to the hospital?

2. Why does Tree get upset when M'Vy says that it is time to go out?

3. How is the relationship with Tree and Miss Pricherd different at the end of the book?

4. How is Silversmith described?

5. What does M'Vy say when Tree and Dab tell her about their experiences with Brother Rush?

6. What prompts Tree to decide to leave home?

7. What happens when M'Vy follows Tree into the little room?

8. What does M'Vy tell Tree is wrong with Dab?

9. What new information does Tree learn about Brother Rush's death, when they are checking in at the hospital?

10. What ails Brother Rush?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush" with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", another book in which children are transported into another world through a special portal.

Essay Topic 2

What does Dab's illness seem to be, and how important is it that we know exactly what it is? Considering how his health affects the rest of the story, does it matter what it is, exactly?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate your own reading of "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush" -- did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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